Posted by Aiken Drum from 4bb84.bossgame.com (198.179.246.64) on April 07, 1998 at 14:19:12:
In Reply to: Re: Forgot to mention... posted by Chris Dunphy on April 06, 1998 at 19:45:40:
Chris Dunphy said:
> The V2200 (and V1000) does support 4bit palettized
> in hardware.
Oh, goody.
> But going forward, we will be dropping
> all palette support in future generations.
Oh, pooh.
> Paletes are bad.
Try having 4k (yes, k) of texture space and then
say that. :) You start to like palettized
textures when working on consoles.
I suppose in PC 3D cards, palettized textures are
probably a trade-off. Either I pay for the extra
silicon to handle palettes or I pay for extra
ram to handle 16-bit or higher textures. I guess
I'll take the latter, since it looks better.
Aik